Here is another autonomous weeding robot that can make life easier for farmers. The Oz robot can help with weeding and hoeing tasks. It is entirely autonomous but you can also guide it to a specific location. The robot is environment-friendly and has 3 modes (autonomous, follow, manual modes).
Meet the BotBoxer Play: an interactive boxing robot that uses AI and machine vision to take your training to the next level. This robotic punching bag comes with games to make workout more fun. It is smart enough to react to your strikes and move out of the way, serving as a smart virtual sparring partner.
Here is another robotic lawnmower that can take on tough cutting jobs, so you don’t have to. The TREX 44 Robotic Slope Lawnmower is a tracked machine with a hybrid power system that can handle slopes up to 50 degrees.
Arduino and Raspberry Pi are wonderful platforms for learning electronics and coding. MicroscoPy is a fun project that shows you what it takes to build your own open source microscope with Python, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and LEGO bricks. It uses 6 stepper motors for rotation, magnification, and focus.
Remember the Misty II? It is a social, interactive robot made for serious developers. It can now be used for COVID-19 temperature screening. It has a closed loop temperature reader and configurable SMS and email notifications. You also get convenient web administration and recording.
The process is fully automated, contactless, and touchless. The temperature sensor has an accuracy of +/- 0.5 C. The above video shows it in action.
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Boxing robots are nothing new. We have already covered a couple that can improve your striking. The Stryk Tek RXT-1 Sparring Bot can take your striking to the next level. It is a 4-arm robot that challenges you with all directions to test your defense and reaction speed.
Here is another robot kit designed to teach you a thing or two about robotics and coding. The RP6v2 features an ATMEGA32 8-bit RISC microcontroller with 8 MIPS and 8MHz clock. It comes with light, collision, speed, and IR obstacle sensors. It has a Module I2C bus expansion system and lets you stack expansion boards as needed.
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of interesting projects involving the ANYmal robot. In order to deploy these quadruped robots in the real world, they will need to be equipped with sensors and algorithms to survive rough terrain. This video from Robotic Systems Lab shows how ANYmal can adapt to uneven terrain with sensorized feet.
Robots are doing many things for us in factories. This video from Fraunhofer IPA shows them take on cabinet cabling. It has two UR robot arms that carry the tasks together. The robot arms move and rotate in parallel: one robot holds the cable while the second brings it to the starting position for cabling. The robots can find, tighten, and plug in cables.
Robots are capable of moving, lifting, and manipulating all kinds of objects. Handling fragile items like taco shells comes with its own challenges though. This video from Soft Robotics show how an industrial robot arm can be equipped with soft grippers to move taco shells without breaking them.
